Honestly does anybody really enjoy hearthstone arena anymore!!!
Over the last 3 weeks been able to play 3 games, once with and every single time ive played what feels like a literal made standard deck!!!
It is actually Beyond a joke, played 2 priests who played the quest card and by turn 9 had completed every step of the quest and turn 10 had the insta kill card…
Then last but bot least played a DH who had the new quest kill and every single card he had was 2 attack…(no pick was out of place) actually worse then a standard deck cause he played one card almost 5 turns in arow.
Sad to say that the old arena that was playable is just no more and a complete waste of time and effort due to the whole duel/arena hybrid!!!
Good bye and hope blizzard comes to its senses and removes this whole duel mechanic as it was terrible in duel and only worse in arena!!!
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I jumped in and thoroughly explored the new Arena by playing over a hundred matches. The new format still needs some adjustments. The Arena and The Underground both need improvements to the gold economy or a lot more players will just start buying gold-farmed-bot-accounts, making Arena even less profitable for Blizzard.
Crowd’s Favor is a very scammy-scummy reward system. I think Zeddy said that he has yet to earn Crowd’s Favor once out of 64 runs, despite getting some 12 win runs.
The heavily curated pool and buckets, along with the re-drafts in The Underground, plus the amount of broken cards in the pool, does give the mode a kind of crappy constructed feel that a lot of Arena players prefer to avoid. The last thing I want is for Arena to feel like constructed these days, because constructed formats are the least satisfactory modes in the game right now.
So no, I am not enjoying Arena much now, and I have been playing BGs for the last week while I wait for improvements to other modes.
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Arena is a money-eating system that Blizzard developed for this very purpose, leveraging psychological studies on people. Since it works similarly to a rigged slot machine, people play it, throwing millions of dollars into it. Now ask yourself a simple question: you have a tool that the authorities consider a normal video game, capable of giving you a constant amount of money while circumventing any law that would compare it to a game of chance, but which in fact triggers the same cognitive mechanisms. What do you do? Anyone would also include bots that make the perfect card appear to earn your two dollars for entry, since there’s no law against it. Those of you who think the Arena is a fair fight between two people with an equal chance of winning, and everything is fair without bots and manipulation, are truly living in an unreal world.
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